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Levin pig farm doesn't break any laws - MAF

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Thu, 02 Jul 2009 12:00a.m.

Animal welfare officials are casting aside any suggestions of cruelty at a Levin pig farm after a two-month investigation sparked by shocking television footage.

The ministry of Agriculture and Forestry launched the investigation after secretly filmed footage of the animals in small sow crates, biting their cage bars and frothing at the mouth, was shown on television.

However MAF's deputy director Larry Ferguson says they found no evidence of the farm breaching any animal welfare laws.

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03 Jul 2009 03:15p.m.

cherie wrote:

Then the laws need to be changed.
Every Sunday we had Roast Pork in our house and would by 1k of bacon per week.
I have not bought one piece of pork since I found that New Zealand treats its pigs this way.
Shame on you Mr Farmer and shame on you people who buy the dam stuff.

03 Jul 2009 06:17a.m.

Peter James wrote:

Levin pig farm doesn't break any laws - MAF

Doesn't make it right..

Just like in the seventies .and beyond.... it was alright for a dunk husband or sober one fo that fact,, locked out ..by his wife because he was drunk.
to chainsaw a hole in the wall. then beat and rape his wife..

and the police when they finally arrived.. many hours later....would tell said wife she shouldn't have locked the husband out..

but it didnt make
it right..
just legal...

some of us don't need laws to tell us not to beat our wives our children..neighbors, or to beat abuse animals..

looks like many do though..
sick sick people...